In a work that echoes tragic stories from the daily news, the New Orleans Opera will present “Blue,” a two-act, English-language opera with an all-Black cast. Composed by Tony Award-winner Jeanine ...

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Elena Galvan will be portraying the princess Pamina in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflõte” at Winter Opera. If you seek an introduction to opera, people often suggest Mozart’s last one, “Die Zauberflöte” (“The ...

Great is Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas ...

Grendel doesn’t fail for lack of talent. The titular monster is rarely offstage, and even less rarely heard. Eric Owens must carry the opera on his own and he proves himself capable: His bass is ...

Quiz time! Name a 19th-cent ury Eng- lish-language opera you've actually heard. Not a Verdi or Puccini chestnut sung in English but an opera with an English libretto. Not a single one? Don't feel ...

The decision to open the 40th opera season on Tuesday with Dido and Aeneas is a lovely nod to the past while ensuring the opera in Israel has a future. The Israeli Opera opened its 40th season on ...

A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical classes. Scribblers like myself as well as the great and the good of the classical music ...